Chapter 1264: Adding Water to Stop the Boiling
"Hmm... hm?"
Kurumi opened her eyes and looked confused when she saw the unfamiliar ceiling.
Where is this place?
How did I get here?
"Hey, little girl, are you awake?"
Grandma Ping looked at Hu Tao with a smile and said, "Come over for breakfast when you wake up. If nothing else, the breakfast at Mora Park may indeed be more in line with the tastes of young people."
"Grandma Ping, are you here too?"
Kurumi was even more surprised, but also relieved. She stood up from the bed with disheveled hair and rubbed her eyes.
"Oh, I'm so sleepy. I was still in Guiliyuan fighting demons with the Great Sage. How could I suddenly fall asleep?"
Grandma Ping was speechless for a moment, mainly because she didn't know how to explain.
Sanqiu's sealing technique seemed a bit heavy-handed.
At this point, it seems that the only option is to make up a story and make up a reason to explain why I refused the coupon for Wangshengtang in the first place.
"My child, have you forgotten that after you came back from exorcising the demons, you were interested in the treasury of Sanqiu, so you said goodbye to the Great Sage and ran inside to find a room to stay in."
Walnut tilted her head while hugging the pillow. Really?
Well, if I think about it this way, it seems like it is something I can really do.
"But why are you here too, Grandma Ping?"
Grandma Ping smiled kindly: "The Great Sage didn't care about your actions at first, but then he changed his mind and felt that it was not safe for a little girl like you to stay in such a big place, so he asked me to come here."
"Oh."
Hu Tao hit his forehead on the quilt, then raised his head and repeated the action several times.
"I'm sorry to trouble you."
"But the Great Sage is indeed like Qiuqiu said. Although he looks cold and difficult to get along with, he is also a person who cares about others."
Walnut shook her head and almost lay down again.
"But isn't this Qiuqiu's vault? It should be safe."
"Silly child, this place is safe only when Sanqiu is here, and he hasn't come back yet."
A look of doubt appeared in Kurumi's eyes.
"That's not right. I clearly remember meeting Qiu Qiu."
Grandma Ping was a little surprised: "Have you seen it?"
"Yes, it was not long ago."
Hu Tao clapped her hands and said, "Oh no, I remember now. I haven't seen her. It was Sister Ningguang who told me that Qiuqiu is back."
"It seems that he asked people to attend a meeting as soon as he came back, and he also transferred a group of people from the Ten Gold Association to prepare for a gang fight, but I really didn't see anyone."
Black eats black...
Although it was a bit strange to describe himself, Sanqiu probably really intended it this way at the time .
Grandma Ping smiled and said, "Okay, kid, go back to the Wangsheng Hall after breakfast. As the head of the hall, I guess there are still a lot of things waiting for you to do."
"If you want to find a room here in the future, you should wait until Sanqiu comes back and then discuss it with him. It would be best if he could also tell you about the security measures."
"Alas, it's pitiful that this hall master has to waste her time on these things even though she is so pretty and in her prime. The guest officials in my house only know how to spend money and don't care about anything else."
Hu Tao quickly put on her clothes, smiled and took Grandma Ping's arm and left the room, just like a pair of grandparents and grandchildren with a very close relationship.
After leaving the vault and saying goodbye to Grandma Ping, Hu Tao came to a mountain in the wild without saying a word and slowly took out a token from his arms.
The "Edict of the True Lord of Divine Silence" that had originally sparkled with golden light had completely lost its luster, and even the token itself felt as if it had been thrown into the dust and pickled for a hundred or eighty years.
Hu Tao's heart sank.
"Sure enough, something happened."
There are two things wrong.
First, no matter how good their relationship was, if he hadn't made it clear with Qiuqiu in advance, it would be impossible for him to go to the vault alone. Even though it was some distance away from Liyue Harbor, was there no guest room in Mora Paradise?
Just now I thought that was something I would do, one reason was to confuse Grandma Ping, and the other reason was that I was really a little sleepy and couldn't react.
This is definitely not an ordinary sleep. It is probably a spell. The caster is either Qiuqiu or Grandma Ping.
Second, it’s the token.
This is a great thing that keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer. To a certain extent, it is even more powerful than some precious magic weapons.
Even if you don't hold it in your arms, at most you can put it on the bedside table next to you, so that you can reach it when you turn over after waking up.
But today, when Hu Tao was eating breakfast in a daze, he touched the token with his eyes half closed, and instantly woke himself up with fright.
The token was cold, just like the feeling of walking in deep ruins and putting your hand into underground water veins.
She is the 77th generation head of the Wangsheng Hall, not some silly and naive girl.
She looks quirky, but that's just because the people around her who can chat with her are basically her acquaintances, so she doesn't need to wear any formal mask at all.
"Qiuqiu, something must have happened to you, right? Otherwise, how could you avoid me in that way?"
Hu Tao subconsciously stroked the surface of the token, and two lines of tears fell down. She felt as if something was pinching her heart hard.
In a trance, she seemed to see Gu Sanqiu standing in front of her with his Dharma eyes fully opened and a calm expression.
It seemed like it was raining heavily and the wind was blowing strongly.
"It seems that I still can't hide it."
Yaolu Weng subconsciously began to lick his paws: "But that's right, even if the fragments are broken, the actual changes are still maintained."
Nothing in substance has been changed, just like Gu Sanqiu is still lying in the Earth Fire River. What has been changed are only the memories and records in the earth veins.
"How long can you hide?"
Grandma Ping shook her head: "Little girl, you can either go to Qun Yu Pavilion or go directly to San Qiu's house. The black shadow will not stop these two people."
"As for how long we can hide, that depends on whether the Emperor and the others have other plans."
Yaolu Weng frowned and said, "Well, how about transferring it directly to Taishan Prefecture? We can now go and lay out the raw stone veins in advance."
“This seems to be a solution.”
Grandma Ping sighed, "Alas, the price this time is a bit too high. I hope Sanqiu can wake up soon. With the physical object as evidence, it will be impossible to hide it from those two smart children."
While Liyue was still playing hide-and-seek, a small-scale riot broke out in the Abyss.
The black dragon released some of its pent-up power, but the consequence was that the monsters in the surrounding area rioted collectively and ran out like crazy, as if they had sensed that an earthquake was coming.
The monsters further away that were not affected suddenly became unhappy.
Who are you to dare to come and grab my territory?
No more talking, brothers.
Start killing!
The scope of this beast riot was so wide that it was extremely rare even in the records of the Abyss Cult .
Not to mention, even the monsters that are still fighting on the front line with forces like Zhidong will occasionally be swallowed by monsters that run out from some corners.
If the beast riots were only directed at monsters, the ground forces might be able to advance the battle line a long way this time.
